Looking to add some pizzazz to those oh-so dull meetings? As a workshop designer with over 20 years of experience working in Silicon Valley, I’ve made it my business to lead engaging meetings – whether they be remote, in-person, or a hybrid of the two. What have I learned about adding fun to functional meetings? Tune in to the 30-minute LinkedIn Live conversation I had with Miro Customer Education Manager Jen Clark for my top tips – or just keep reading this article!
We all want to make the most effective use of our working hours – but competing schedules and calendars can quickly complicate matters! Scheduling software enables businesses to track, plan and manage appointments efficiently. Every day, we use many tools to increase our productivity, plan tasks, automate work, and analyze our data. It’s all about optimizing as many parts of our workflow as possible and getting more done in a shorter period of time.
If 2020 was the year of work-from-home, 2021 will gradually be easing into what the future of the office will look like: a hybridized home-and-office requiring the use of many different workflow tools. The reason this term casts such a wide net is because everyone’s situation will be notably different. Some businesses will return in full force (once they’re able to) and will resume the office life that they formerly lived, while other organizations may never have a formal office again.
Whether we’d like to admit it or not, meetings are a fact of work life. When conducted consciously, they can be a highly effective tool for sharing ideas or making decisions. Unfortunately too many of us have experienced “bad” meetings, the kind that turn into a laundry list of status updates rather than a productive meeting of the minds. So what’s a team to do when the best way for them to align is to meet in real time?
Meetings are ubiquitous across companies of all shapes and sizes, and it takes a conscious effort to ensure they’re actionable and productive, rather than a laundry list of status updates. As teams around the world have transitioned to fully remote-work, many have had to completely rethink their meeting practices, including everything from content to cadence.
Remote meetings have become an essential part of a workflow, or even the only way of communication in various teams across the globe. Thomas Oppong, Founding Editor at ALLTOPSTARTUPS pointed to a shift in remote working as one of 7 key business trends for 2016, because even “larger companies have been embracing remote workers, at least partially, including powerhouses like Apple, Amazon, Dell, Intuit and IBM”.
